Callie Bonine holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska and has maintained a longstanding focus on equine subject matter.

Following a successful career in the health and wellness industry, she returned to full-time studio practice with a more refined visual language and a renewed commitment to large-scale oil painting.

Her work centers on the dressage and sport horse, exploring performance, psychological intensity, and the structural elegance of movement. Through expressive brushwork and controlled composition, her paintings examine the balance between power and harmony - capturing both the physical presence of the horse and the nuanced connection between horse and rider.

Her work now centers on performance, psychological intensity, and the structural elegance of the sport horse.

Bonine lives and works in Arizona.

This body of work examines the sport horse as structure under discipline.

The contemporary equine oils presented here isolate power, containment, and elevation through cropped composition and controlled light. Rather than narrative settings, the focus remains on architectural form - the crest under tension, the shoulder in suspension, the precise line of rein and hand.

Each painting is constructed through layered oil, directional mark-making, and deliberate negative space. Shadow is used as restraint. Light defines energy.

Following a significant interruption in both physical balance and artistic practice, the artist’s approach shifted away from traditional realism toward a more force-driven visual language. Precision yielded to structure. Detail yielded to presence.

This is contemporary equine fine art positioned for collectors who understand discipline, partnership, and performance as cultural legacy.